The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says that the commission is setting up a legal team to deal with cases of electoral offenders during the February 25 presidential and National Assembly polls.
The INEC boss spoke at the meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security in Abuja yesterday.
This was as he said the forthcoming governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections will be expectedly more demanding than the presidential poll and urged the security agencies to be on guard.
Yakubu advised political parties to caution their supporters, stressing that the March 18 governorship and state Assembly elections are a contest and not war.
He maintained that INEC was looking forward to receiving electoral offenders’ case files as promised by the Inspector-General of Police.
